How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Summary

The Huang Laboratory is looking to hire a Research Lab Technician to manage our growing Interstitial Lung Disease Biorepository and be on the forefront of cutting-edge research in lung disease. Located in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, our laboratory studies how epigenetic modifications contribute to the development of pulmonary fibrosis and other chronic lung diseases. We obtain lung tissue from patients with pulmonary fibrosis and healthy controls from Gift of Life, Michigan. We study how fibroblasts and other cell types acquire changes in DNA methylation to contribute to lung fibrosis. It is expected that 50-60% effort will be devoted to helping organize and maintain our growing biorepository. This involves updating and maintaining databases and processing biospecimens when they arrive. Preparation of lung tissue will involve digestion, cell isolation, positive and negative cell selection, cell culture, and generation of precision-cut lung slices. For the other 40% effort, the research lab technician will be expected to help plan and set up experiments using patient-derived cells, run assays including immunoblot, PCR, immunofluorescence/histochemistry, and learn techniques for epigenetic analysis including bisulfite sequencing and chromatin immunoprecipitation. The technician will be expected to collect and organize data and share findings with the PI. We strive to be diverse, inclusive, and respectful to all members of the research community.

Mission Statement

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

Why Join Michigan Medicine?

Michigan Medicine is one of the largest health care complexes in the world and has been the site of many groundbreaking medical and technological advancements since the opening of the U-M Medical School in 1850. Michigan Medicine is comprised of over 30,000 employees and our vision is to attract, inspire, and develop outstanding people in medicine, sciences, and healthcare to become one of the world's most distinguished academic health systems. In some way, great or small, every person here helps to advance this world-class institution. Work at Michigan Medicine and become a victor for the greater good.

What Benefits can you Look Forward to?

• Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage effective on your very first day
• 2:1 Match on retirement savings

Responsibilities*

Contribution to Research

• Perform in vitro, cell culture experiment
• This involves both basic and eventual advanced cell culture techniques
• Performing western blot, PCR, immunostaining, microscopy, and other basic molecular biology techniques
• Assist with animal experiments
• Assist and helping to perform experiments in animal models
• Taking animal tissues for downstream analysis
• Data analysis and presentation
• Collating and analyzing any data collected; presenting findings to PI

Help organize and manage the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Biorepository

• Maintain organization of biospecimens in freezers and tissue storage space
• Keep database including biospecimens in LabVantage up-to-date
• Appropriate ship, package, and share biospecimens to approved investigators as part of the biorepository
• Process lung tissue when they arrive in the lab as part of the biorepository protocol (includes dissection, digestion, cell isolation and labeling of specimens)

Required Qualifications*

Senior Level:

• Bachelor's degree
• 1-2 years experience
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted, including relevant undergraduate and graduate student experience

Intermediate Level:

• HS Diploma or Associate degree
• 1-3 years of experience
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted, including relevant undergraduate and graduate student experience

Underfill Statement

This position may be underfilled at a lower classification depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

Background Screening

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Job Detail

Job Opening ID

250580

Working Title

Research Laboratory Tech Senior/Intermediate

Job Title

Research Laboratory Tech Sr

Work Location

Ann Arbor Campus

Ann Arbor, MI

Full/Part Time

Full-Time

Regular/Temporary

Regular

FLSA Status

Nonexempt

Organizational Group

Medical School

Department

MM Int Med-Pulm./Critical Care

Posting Begin/End Date

6/18/2024 - 7/02/2024

Career Interest

Research